Human activity has added an average of 40 days to the global wildfire season, fundamentally changing when fires occur around the world. New research from the University of Tasmania, published in ...

Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire more than a million years ago, but the discovery at the Paleolithic site in Barnham evidences the creation and control of fire, which carries huge ...

Community members, agency staffers, landowners and researchers tend a prescribed burn in Placerville, California in February 2022. (Tim McConville/UC Davis) Prescribed fire, which mimics natural fire ...

A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling fire, a significant find that archaeologists say illuminates a dramatic turning point ...